Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.

– 20-year-old Stephen Lovegrove was fired from his job as a resident assistant and expelled from Charleston Southern University for openly discussing being gay; the university also cut his financial aid. A petition is calling on the school, which is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, to adopt sexual orientation nondiscrimination protections.

– The Southern Baptist Convention has ruled that Southern Baptist military chaplains will be prohibited from even attending a same-sex wedding either on or off base.

– A gay couple in Chihuahua, Mexico has won the right to marry, making it the fourth state in the country to offer marriage equality.

– Yelena Isinbayeva, the Russian pole vaulter who defended the country’s homophobic law, will keep her role as Olympic youth ambassador in spite of her comments.

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